Why Can't We Be Friends?

Spring: "a time or season of growth or development; specifically the season between winter and summer comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of March, April, and May or as reckoned astronomically extending from the March equinox to the June solstice."

Training: "the act, process, or method of one that trains; the skill, knowledge, or experience acquired by one that trains; the state of being trained."

So, with those Merriam-Webster definitions in hand, why can't we all be friends?

I mean, it's spring training after all.

This is the time of year for Billy Crystal and Garth Brooks to get in the game. We don't need to take out catchers and bean each other and go in spikes up.

We don't need to come flying in from right field and get off a half-hearted shove of another player. It's March, for goodness sakes.

Memo to the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees: You boys have about 162 games to play, so cool it.

Go out, get your work in, throw the ball around, take some B.P., enjoy the sunshine and call it a day.

After you're done building your arm strength and working on your tan, go home, raid the fridge and sit and watch some college hoops like the rest of us.